Entries for July 1992

Barbara Walters blazed a distinguished path in television for female journalists as the first woman to co-host a network morning broadcast on NBC's Today Show.

Barbara Walters blazed a distinguished path in television for female journalists as the first woman to co-host a network morning broadcast on NBC's Today Show.

In the year leading up to Kenya's 1992 elections, Catherine Gicheru wrote a series of exclusive reports for the independent daily, The Nation, that exposed involvement of high government officials in the assassination of a local political figure. In retaliation for Gicheru's articles, the Kenyan government banned the paper from covering the Electoral Commission, which oversaw the 1992 presidential election.

When Serbian national forces began their attack on Sarajevo in 1992, Kemal Kurspahic editor-in-chief of Oslobodjenje, vowed to publish for as long as the city stood. Six staff members were killed and 10 wounded, but true to his word, the paper continued to be published - without missing a day - for the three-and-a-half year siege of Sarajevo.

Margaret Moth began her journalism career in her native New Zealand and joined CNN in 1990. She covered the Persian Gulf War, the rioting that followed Indira Gandhi's assassination and the civil war in Tbilisi, Georgia, for CNN before volunteering for the dangerous mission of filming in Sarajevo.